Document Type
Article
Publication Date
Summer 2015
Publication Title
Traces of Indiana and Midwestern History
First Page
34
Last Page
43
Additional Publication URL
http://www.indianahistory.org/our-services/books-publications/magazines/em-traces-em
Abstract
Concerns about the future for young people, reflected in contemporary headlines, were equally prominent in Indianapolis a hundred years ago. Then, as now, children whose parents neglected or abandoned them posed a special problem. In the midst of rapid social change that seemed to threaten traditional family stability, a small corps of professionals and volunteers worked to provide a nurturing environment.
Rights
This article was archived with permission from Indiana Historical Society, all rights reserved. Document also available from Traces.
Recommended Citation
Ramsbottom, John D., "Searching for Their Real Home: Dependent Black Children in Indianapolis, 1910-1940" Traces of Indiana and Midwestern History / (Summer 2015): 34-43.
Available at https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/facsch_papers/716